Cincinnati (OKI) Regional ITS Architecture

The OKI Regional ITS Architecture is a roadmap for transportation systems integration in the OKI (Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana) Regional Council of Government tri-state area over the next 15 years. The OKI Regional ITS Architecture has been developed through a cooperative effort by the region's transportation agencies, covering all surface transportation modes in the region.

This OKI Regional ITS Architecture was developed through a series of stakeholder meetings and by reviewing the 2001 OKI Regional ITS Plan document, which included a regional ITS architecture. Additional information for the OKI Regional ITS Architecture was gathered through stakeholder input during stakeholder workshops held on December 6, 2007 and January 31, 2008. This OKI Regional ITS Architecture documents how stakeholders envision that each agency's systems will work together in the future and how that sharing of information and resources will help provide a safer, more efficient, and more effective transportation system for travelers in the region.

The architecture is an important new tool that will be used by:

• Planning agencies to incorporate integration opportunities and operational needs into the transportation planning process;
• Operating and implementing agencies to recognize and implement transportation integration opportunities in the Region; and
• Other organizations and individuals that use the transportation system in the Region.

The architecture provides an overarching framework that spans all of these organizations and individual transportation projects.  Using the architecture, each transportation project can be viewed as an element of the overall transportation system, providing visibility into the relationship between individual transportation projects and ways to cost-effectively build an integrated transportation system over time.

Time Horizon and Services

The OKI Regional ITS Architecture has a time horizon of 15 years with particular focus on those systems and interfaces that are likely to be implemented in the next five years. The architecture covers the broad spectrum of Intelligent Transportation Systems, including Traffic Management, Emergency Management, Maintenance and Construction Management, Public Transportation Management, Commercial Vehicle Operations, and Archived Data Management.

Elements in the architecture are classified as either “existing” or “planned.” Elements classified as “existing” are those whose interface design is complete, regardless of whether the actual element or interface is implemented. Elements classified as “planned” are those whose interfaces have not yet been designed.

About this Web Site

The purpose of this regional ITS architecture web site is to organize the details of the architecture into a form that is more readily accessible to stakeholders. It will provide a method for stakeholders to access the architecture information in order to encourage use of the OKI Regional ITS Architecture in both transportation planning and project implementation. In addition, this website will be useful in gathering stakeholder feedback. The menu bar at the left provides access to the stakeholders, the transportation systems in the region (the "Inventory"), the transportation services that will be provided, transportation-related ITS functions that have been selected for the Region, and the existing and planned interfaces in the Region.

The majority of this web site was generated directly from a Turbo Architecture database that documents the architecture for the OKI Region. The source database in Microsoft Access format will be available here.